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Re: A Description of Debian for a presentation



On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:31:06PM -0700, Nancy Blachman wrote:
>          Few of the developers have met in person

Actually, most developers have met at least one other developer, in order
to get firm identification of them for the purpose of signing their gpg
(cryptographic) key. (Such keys are the basis of identification over the
internet in the Debian project)

>       Superior package format (App-get)

apt-get. apt is the Advanced Package Tool.

>          will go out and fetch needed libraries and other files from
>              the Internet if you are missing them

And more importantly, upgrade the ones you have to the latest versions
(should you wish it to).

-- 
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@users.sourceforge.net>
Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK

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